TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1703, 8 May 1886, Page 4

TELEGRAPHIC.

9 . :■ (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION). Auckland, Friday. At a meeting of the Auckland Tobacco Company the report showed a loss on working the company of £'5209. It was resolved to wind up the affair. At a meeting to-d.iy the Now Zealand Lamonte Smelting Company, resolved to go into liquidation. No offers were received for tho purchase of tho company's interest or to form a new company. Wellington, Friday. A meeting of creditors m the estate, of G. H. Wallace & Co, auctioneers, recommended that the ; debtor? receive their discharge. Married men beyond the age of 40, will bo exempt from aervico m the Militia. The third, class will ineluileNiiarried men between 30 and- 40, and single men from 40 to 55, and not as previously telegraphed. ' The battery of six- pounder guns arrived by the ship. Oam.ar.u. G«otain Maxwell reports that the Oamaru experienced some vftry severe . weathor. Off Cape Beu win the vessel shipped a tremendous quantity of water, which smashed the litebo.it and carried overboard everything moveable on deck. At a meeting of the guarantors of tho West Coast Railway held to-day, it was agreed that it is advisable to postpone any demonstration for the present. The Mayor, however, has 'received, so. many offers of assistance towards a demonstration that he is inclined to get one up.